This quote has been making the email rounds (I did a brief search and could not find the author. If anyone knows who wrote this, I would love to know):
I want to live my next life backwards.
You start out dead, and get that out of the way.
Then you wake up in an old age home, feeling better every day.
Then you get kicked out for being too healthy.
You enjoy your retirement and collect your pension.
Then, when you start to work, you get a gold watch on your first day.
You work 40 years until you’re too young to work.
You get ready for high school, drink alcohol and party, and are generally very social.
Then, you go to primary school, become a kid, play and have no responsibilities.
Then you become a baby.
Then, you spend your last nine months floating peacefully in luxury in spa-like conditions, central heating, and room service on tap.
Then, you finish off as an orgasm.
I rest my case.-Author Unknown-
It reminded me of one of the best books that I ever read: The Confessions of Max Tivoli: A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer. Max Tivoli is born as an old man and grows younger over time. On the surface it sounds totally absurd (kind of “you lost me at born an old man”), but Greer makes it work and the suspension of disbelief required is not as impossible as you might think.
While the context for the book is the biography of a man living in reverse, the book itself is really about unrequited love, loss, abandonment and loneliness. Max Tivoli is a creative classic.
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